SA PROJECT UPDATE 12 (editing process)

Editing on Adobe Premiere Pro CC 2014 - Caroline Wong 

Editing on iMovie - Caroline Wong

To edit my movie, I used iMovie and Adobe Premiere Pro. The reason for using both is because I like that on iMovie, you can see the clip you are working on whereas on Premiere Pro, clips come up on the timeline as blocks and nothing else. Premiere Pro however is more professional and as I needed to crop the frames of clips, iMovie wasn't able to offer this function. This resulted in me using Premiere Pro to create the framed clips before importing everything into iMovie and creating the final film there.

During the film workshop, I learnt how to create composite clips where more than one clip plays on the screen at the same time whilst showing everything. I also learnt (through a mistake made when filming our fashion film) how to go about fixing clips that didn't quite fit together through zooming in and out to adjust the perspective. All of these skills acquired came in handy when editing as I used 4, 8 and 16 point garbage matte's on all the clips being cropped into different shaped frames. For the clips that didn't quite line up, I was able to use my previous knowledge on how to solve the problem and managed to save those shots (example shown above in Premiere Pro screenshot). All composite shots and framed shots were mounted on a white background as I was referring to my previous research into one of my favorite fashion films 'Hurricane Irene' by Jminism.

Editing took the longest amount of time as I was using a remix of Stevie Wonder's superstition as my backing track. In order to get the editing perfect, I had to ensure clips changed at every beat drop (which happened more often than not). The resulting film is very fast paced and as you can see above in the iMovie screenshot, a lot of the clips were sped up to either ensure that the entire thing could be shown (as I was unwilling to cut out a few things) or to match the feel of the film.

On iMovie, I was also able to play around with the white balance, exposure and contrast that I had made a note to do when storyboarding and experimenting with my shots. Because we had filmed inside without any proper lighting equipment, the white walls appeared to be rather yellow on camera despite adjusting the white balance on my camera. By further adjusting the white balance on iMovie, I was able to get the shots to seamlessly go from white wall to white background on the framed shots.